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I have a 06 male Het. albino W. Hog and he is twitching massively. does anyone know what might be wrong with him??
He eats fine and doesnt get held that offten but other than that i dont know whats wrong with him.
Any help would be apperciated.
Thanks Brandon

I've had a similar thing happend to a male of mine. He whas dehydrated. Assist him in drinking, eihter hold him down to his waterbowl, or "force" with a seringe(without the needle off course) After about 1 week he whas fine again. Hope youre hog, gets better
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Mark

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If you have him on pine, take him off immediately. It causes seizures in snakes.

If it's not dehydration as mentioned above- is he doing it all the time, or only when you touch him? My male tri twitches pretty impressively when handled, and will go so far as to start having those mating convulsions or whatever you call it, when he is really excited and ready to breed (although how he plans to work me into the picture, I don't know!) It scared me to death the first time he did it. Then Jenea told me what he was up to.

Nanci
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I have had that problem when I used proventamite on a western hog. It wrecked his nervous system even though I follow the directions and made sure it was dry when he was placed in the enclosure.

Jason

I have seen the following cause seizures:
Excessive ammonia buildup (poor ventilation.)
Close proximity to mite strips for more than 24 hours. (Permanent head spasms.)
Starvation. Makes you sad when one gets away and found 6 months later, half dead. She made it, but she twitches now.
Unable to get under frost line when hibernating in the wild. Seen a tail sticking out from a crack in the concrete under the foundation of my garage (Used to be a small house.) I was lucky enough to see a black rat snake emerging after the spring thaw, so I took him inside and checked him out, released him later that day. He shook bad.
Unscrupulous people that tried to get 2 headed snakes by quick-freezing their eggs. Low hatch rates, all had defects and twitches. Poor things.

OOH, forgot an important one.
LYSOL!!!! (Or any cleaner containing phenol.)
This is reason that you can't use pine, it contains phenol oils.
When I had my carpets professionally cleaned, I instructed the ladies NOT to use lysol (Or any professional cleaning product containing phenol.)
I carefully read the MSDS of everything they had in their truck. They have to have access to it by law.